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, 2017 Wastewater treatment aims to ensure that the effluents from domestic and industrial processes are disposed without endangering human health and with the least possible effect on the environment. In Costa Rica, the sewerage system covers only a part of the population (less than 25 %), so that many households, industries, as well as public and private ...
Barrantes Barrantes, Edwin Alberto +1 more
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Tracing holotype trajectories: Mapping the movement of the most valuable herbarium specimens
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Global efforts to protect biodiversity depend on fair access to key plant specimens. This study examines the distribution of 119,361 holotypes—unique herbarium specimens used to formally describe new plant species. By linking collection and storage data, we found that holotypes are increasingly held closer to their places of origin, particularly in ...
Dominik Tomaszewski +2 more
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Revista de Biología Tropical, 2012 En 2011 el Herbario USJ de Costa Rica cumplió 80 años y llegó a 100 000 especímenes de todos los taxa que estudia la botánica. Se anotan datos y cifras sobre historia, fundadores y contribuciones de USJ al conocimiento florístico de Costa Rica.In 2011 ...
Carlos O Morales
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Adaptive capabilities, pathdependence and institutional change: insights from an empirical work on rural producers organizations [PDF]
, 2007 During the last twenty years, the evolution of public policies in Southern countries has been characterized by the implementation of liberalization processes, which can be analyzed through Douglass North's institutional change approach.
Bosc, Pierre-Marie +1 more
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Trade liberalization and foreign direct investment: an applied general equilibrium model for Costa Rica [PDF]
, 1999 This paper quantifies the welfare impact of unilateral trade liberalization and computes the optimal tariff structure for Costa Rica in the presence of trade-policy-induced international capital flows and foreign capital taxation.
Abrego, Lisandro
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Agroforestry and enhanced rock weathering: A dual strategy for sustainable cacao
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Cacao production is both economically vital and environmentally intensive, presenting a major sustainability challenge as a crop largely cultivated by smallholder farmers in climate‐vulnerable regions. This review synthesises evidence that integrating agroforestry with enhanced rock weathering (EW) may significantly reduce emissions from cacao ...
Isabella L. Steeley +4 more
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HERRAMIENTA Y MÉTODO, MODOS DE USO
RevistArquis, 2014 RESUMEN La siguiente es una versión escrita de la charla que el artista Esteban Piedra presentó el 21 de mayo en la Escuela de Arquitectura de la Universidad de Costa Rica en el marco de del curso “Experimentos de Representación en Arquitectura,” y de ...
Esteban Piedra León
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Diálogos, 2019 Lowell Gudmundson es un historiador nacido en los Estados Unidos, pero con un profundo interés por Costa Rica y Centroamérica. Nacido en 1951, una buena parte de sus años de vida los ha pasado investigando en los archivos costarricenses y produciendo ...
David Díaz Arias
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Potential distribution and susceptibility of Coffea arabica L. to climate change impacts
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Ecological niche models (ENMs) are vital for understanding the impact of historical factors on ecosystems and predicting future climate change scenarios. These models help assess how environmental shifts affect agricultural species like coffee, which supports millions of people globally.
Yuliana Grisel García‐Martínez +1 more
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Biodiversidad marina de Costa Rica: Crustacea: Infraorden Anomura
Revista de Biología Tropical, 2006 El grupo de los cangrejos anomuros es uno de los mejor conocidos de la costa Pacífica de Costa Rica, pero muy poco conocidos de la costa Caribe. En esta recopilación, basada en la literatura y en las colecciones del Museo de Zoología, Escuela de Biología,
Rita Vargas, Jorge Cortés
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